An Analysis of Jordanian Bedouin Riddles from the Badia Region

This research project analyzes Jordanian Bedouin riddles from the Ras Alnaqb area of the Badia region. First a corpus of Nabati Jordanian riddles were collected and considered from a linguistic, cultural studies, and post-colonial studies perspective. The resulting qualitative study is composed of t...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Almarayeh, Abdulateef Suleiman Salameh
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/33897
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33897
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:570502 Etnolingüística
570510 Sociolingüística
Descripción
Sumario:This research project analyzes Jordanian Bedouin riddles from the Ras Alnaqb area of the Badia region. First a corpus of Nabati Jordanian riddles were collected and considered from a linguistic, cultural studies, and post-colonial studies perspective. The resulting qualitative study is composed of two parts.The first discusses certain historical, social, and cultural aspects to be considered. The second section outlines earlier studies on Arabic riddles from other areas as well as previous work done on Jordanian riddles. Next it presents the corpus collected, discusses the cultural and structural findings and puts forth new formulae to use in the classification of Jordanian Bedouin riddles.